Why emergence > mechanism as explanation/and/or description of life
the operation of the whole, is something unitary that one could not describe as simply a sum of the interactions of the parts.
Why first actuality> emergence as explanation/and/or descritpion
think of the act of being as something like an overflow from a spring. Outside influences don't push the water OUT (mechanistic): rather, they CHANNEL the FLOW. Here first actuality indicates a kind of initiative that is already and always there.
the operation of the whole, is something unitary that one could not describe as simply a sum of the interactions of the parts.
Why first actuality> emergence as explanation/and/or descritpion
think of the act of being as something like an overflow from a spring. Outside influences don't push the water OUT (mechanistic): rather, they CHANNEL the FLOW. Here first actuality indicates a kind of initiative that is already and always there.
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